"We're expanding our footprint and raising our visibility," said Amy Lewis Hofland, museum executive director. "Our hope is that the Sculpture Garden becomes a downtown oasis where people are drawn to explore, contemplate and enjoy the inseparable bond between art and nature."

Well, that's where you come in. We're going to need your help to decide which of the films should be in the running for the top prize. So on 17 October we'll be releasing all the films, and asking you to choose your favourites.

It's a safe bet that Energy Department officials who green lit a $535 million loan guarantee for Solyndra's new Fremont, Calif.,?factory, called Fab 2,?didn't think that the solar panel maker . But that's what Solyndra's Chief Executive Brian Harrison did early in November, while touting the efficiency of Fab 2 . A lot about Solyndra has surprised the cleantech community in the past year. and not in a positive sense. The company has an innovative thin film technology but has been unable to compete on price with Chinese manufacturers Yingli and Suntech, who make low-priced, conventional silicon photovoltaic technologies. As a consequence, Solyndra has scaled back the planned manufacturing capacity from 610 megawatts by 2013 to 300 MW.

The coal-fired boiler had been attached to a hydrolysis plant, but this went bust a few years ago, leaving the administration to search for alternatives. What they found was a clean, renewable and reliable source of fuel, available in the form of waste biomass from the Onega sawmill. It cost 7.5 million to build a new plant - but the carbon emissions avoided by replacing coal with waste biomass have already generated 5 million through offset schemes.

22:14 Goal scored